Preliminary Task with Elina Davies and Martins Ibeh

The task wasn't of great importance to my groups grades, or blog, but nevertheless very helpfull for our future shooting and edits of the opening sequence we'd have to do on our own.
We were basically supposed to have filmed one person walking trough a door, the to edit a match on action, so the audience can see the person walk trough and the out the other side of the door. Then we had to show the person, walk trough a room, as we had to keep the 180 degree rule, for the camera to remain on one side of the set during filming ONLY as not to confuse the audience. And finally a conversation between two people - a two shot. To show that we are still keeping the 180  degree rule in mind.
We had an evening session given to complete that, although it looked like it's an easy thing to finish. In the end it look my group longer than expected. We had some technical difficulties with our camera, the light wasn't good enough and the sound was too quiet. So we swapped  the camera with a different one and shot the whole thing all over again. Other than that our group had no difficulty with this task. It was really helpful for us, to deal with the technical issues now, so that we'd know what to watch out for and have in mind when actually filming our sequence.
After we shot the footage, we transferred it from the cassette to a MAC computer, and then imported it on the time line  of our editing programme Final Cut Pro. Elina was more experienced with the editing, so we watched her as she did it and learned how to help her for our film. It took us about 30 minutes to re shoot everything and edit it, so we had no trouble with timing really.